Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 15, 2021

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This Privacy Policy describes how Treft Systems, Inc., doing business as Academy Of Mine (“AOM,” “Academy Of Mine”, ”we,” “our” or “us”), collects, uses, and shares information in connection with your use of our websites (including academyofmine.com), services, and applications (collectively, the “Platform” or ”Services”). This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) does not apply to information our customers may process when using our Platform and/or Services.

We may collect and receive information about users of our Services (“users,” “clients”, “you,” or “your”) from various sources, including (i) information you provide through your user account on the Services (your “Account”) if you register for the Services; (ii) your use of the Services; and (iii) from third-party websites, services, and partners.

We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy in full to ensure you are fully informed. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or AOM’s data collection, use, and disclosure practices, please contact us at info@academyofmine.com.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information You Provide

Account Registration. When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number. Payment Information. When you add your financial account information to your Account, that information is directed to our third-party payment processor (stripe and PayPal). We do not store your financial account information on our systems; however, we have access to and may retain, subscriber information through our third-party payment processor.

Communications. If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. We may also receive a confirmation when you open an email from us.

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

Information We Collect When You Use Our Platform/Services

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. In addition, when you use our Services, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data, landing page, and referring URL. To collect this information, a cookie may be set on your computer or device when you visit our Services. Cookies contain a small amount of information that allows our web servers to recognize you. We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or clear gifs to record your preferences. We may also automatically collect information about your use of features of our Services, about the functionality of our Services, frequency of visits, and other information related to your interactions with the Services. We may track your use across different websites and services. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the information referenced above in this paragraph may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.

Usage of our Services. When you use our Services, we may collect information about your engagement with and utilization of our Services, such as processor and memory usage, storage capacity, navigation of our Services, and system-level metrics. We use this data to operate the Services, maintain and improve the performance and utilization of the Services, develop new features, protect the security and safety of our Services and our customers, and provide customer support. We also use this data to develop aggregate analysis and business intelligence that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on the performance of our business.

Information We Receive from Third Parties

Information is collected from you only if your consent is given. For example, if you sign up for our free newsletter, you will be required to give us your email address. This email address will be used for the sole purpose of sending your free newsletter and nothing else. Any information you provide us with will not be sold or distributed to any third party and will not be used by AOM for anything other than the original purpose intended.

We will specifically ask for personal information about you when you sign up to purchase our products. Certain information may be required, such as your name, internet address or screen name, billing address, type of computer, credit card number, in order to provide our service or product to you.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We use the information we collect in various ways, including:

Provide, operate, and maintain our Platform/Services
Improve, personalize, and expand our Services
Understand and analyze how you use our Services
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Service, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Process your transactions
Find and prevent fraud

For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Service, or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.

AOM will only use the personal information you have chosen to provide us for the purpose for which you provided it. We will not use it for any other purpose without your consent. We do not even provide a list of our current (paid) members’ websites to our potential (pre-sale) members, with the exception being if the current clients permit us to highlight/showcase their site built with us.

HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We may share the information we collect in various ways, including the following:

Vendors and Service Providers. We may share information with third-party vendors and service providers that provide services on our behalf, such as helping to provide our Services, for promotional and/or marketing purposes, and to provide you with information relevant to you such as product announcements, software updates, special offers, or other information.

Aggregate Information. Where legally permissible, we may use and share information about users with our partners in aggregated or de-identified forms that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Third-Party Partners. We also share information about users with third-party partners in order to receive additional publicly available information about you.

Information We Share When You Sign Up Through a Referral. If you sign up for our Services through a referral from a friend, we may share information with your referrer to let them know that you used their referral to sign up for our Services.

Analytics. We use analytics providers such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect non-identifying information. Google provides some additional privacy options regarding its Analytics cookies at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Business Transfers. Information may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to any potential acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any proposed merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

There will be occasions where it will be necessary for AOM to disclose your personal information to third parties. We may be required by law to disclose the information, or we may be required to disclose your personal information to third parties to provide the service you have requested, for example, if you purchase products online from us, AOM will need to disclose your personal information to third parties in order to bill and deliver your products. However, the disclosure will only be made where it is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which you disclose your personal information (For example, if you pay through PayPal for our services then PayPal will need to know your billing details). Otherwise than stated above, we do not disclose personal information that you may give us, such as your name, address, email address or telephone number, to any organization or person outside AOM unless you have authorized us to do so.

As Required by Law and Similar Disclosures. We may also share information to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (ii) enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations hereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; (iv) respond to your requests; or (v) protect our rights, property or safety, our users and the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention.

With Your Consent, we may share your information. Under no circumstances will AOM sell or receive payment for licensing or disclosing your personal information or your users’ information on the platform.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you; (ii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights; or (iii) where we have your consent to do so. We have a legitimate interest in operating our Services and communicating with you as necessary to provide these Services, for example when responding to your queries, improving our platform, undertaking marketing, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities.

In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

You may access other third-party services through the Services, for example by clicking on links to those third-party services from within the Services. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third-party services, and we encourage you to carefully review their privacy policies.

SECURITY

AOM is committed to protecting your information. To do so, we employ a variety of security technologies and measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.

AOM operates secure data networks that are designed to protect your privacy and security. Our e-commerce providers (Woocommerce & Stripe) have their own Security and Privacy Issues document which can be found on their websites. We do not store any sensitive information such as Credit card numbers on our servers. Credit Card numbers are stored on our payment processor’s server which is PCI Compliant and has bank-grade encryption.

However, please bear in mind that the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You are responsible for ensuring your website is secure and your passwords are protected at all times. Also, you are responsible to ensure that your password strength for your account is reasonably high and weaker passwords can be targeted by hackers which is not in our control.

DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax, or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will delete it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

ACCESS

If you are a registered user, you may access certain information associated with your Account by logging into your my-account page or emailing info@academyofmine.com.

To protect your privacy and security, we may also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before updating or removing your information. The information you provide us may be archived or stored periodically by us according to backup processes conducted in the ordinary course of business for disaster recovery purposes. Your ability to access and correct your information may be temporarily limited where access and correction could: inhibit AOM’s ability to comply with a legal obligation; inhibit AOM’s ability to investigate, make or defend legal claims; result in disclosure of personal information about a third party; or result in breach of a contract or disclosure of trade secrets or other proprietary business information belonging to AOM or a third party.

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the following data protection rights:

If you wish to access, correct, update, or request the deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by emailing info@academyofmine.com.

In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can exercise these rights by emailing info@academyofmine.com.

You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing, please contact us by emailing info@academyofmine.com.

Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

YOUR CHOICES

You may unsubscribe from receiving certain promotional emails from us. If you wish to do so, simply follow the instructions found at the end of the email. Even if you unsubscribe, we may still contact you for informational, transactional, account-related, or similar purposes.

Many browsers have an option for disabling cookies, which may prevent your browser from accepting new cookies or enable selective use of cookies. Please note that, if you choose not to accept cookies, some features and the personalization of our Services may no longer work for you. You will continue to receive advertising material but it will not be tailored to your interests.

MINIMUM AGE POLICY

As stated in our Terms of Use, our website and services are offered and available only to you if are 18 years or older If you do not meet this eligibility requirement, you may not use our website or services. AOM does not knowingly collect or store any personal information from or about children under the age of 13. We will delete such information if we become aware that it has been submitted through our website. Parents or legal guardians who believe that AOM might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13 may submit a request to info@academyofmine.com and request that such information is removed.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time, so please review it frequently. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on our websites. If we materially change the ways in which we use or share personal information previously collected from you through our Services, we will notify you through our Services, by email, or other communication.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

AOM is a global business. We may transfer personal information to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

DISCLOSURE

EU-US PRIVACY SHIELD FRAMEWORK

AOM complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union to the United States. AOM has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit privacy shield website here

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, AOM commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact AOM at: info@academyofmine.com

AOM has further committed to cooperate with the panel established by the EU data protection authorities (DPAs) with regard to unresolved Privacy Shield complaints concerning data transferred from the EU.

INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUALS

– AOM is being subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

– There is possibility, under certain conditions, for the individual to invoke binding arbitration-

– AOM is required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements

– AOM will assume limited liability in cases of onward transfers to third parties

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@academyofmine.com.

The data controller of your personal information is Treft Systems, Inc.